Existence Quotes

4253 Existence quotes by 2188 unique authors

We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms. — Arthur Rubinstein
Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune. — Aristotle
The quality of life is determined by its activities. — Aristotle
There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it. — Walter Savage Landor
A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence. — Joseph Conrad
We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am sure care's an enemy to life. — William Shakespeare
Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. — George Bernard Shaw
Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every life is its own excuse for being. — Elbert Hubbard
The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length. — Plutarch
Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination. — Andre Gide
We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives. — Oliver Sacks
One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it. — Elias Canetti
The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed.… — Clarence Day
I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it. — Albert Einstein
Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
With the intellect, I always have-always shall overcome, but that is not half of the work of life. The life-oh my God-shall the life never… — Margaret Fuller
The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful. — Oscar Wilde
Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life. — George Bernard Shaw
Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them. — Napoleon Bonaparte
But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs… — Albert Einstein

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